RESEARCH
ROCKWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN VISUAL STUDIES
The Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, is a national research institute dedicated to American illustration art. Here you can find information about the center, connect to programs, and learn more about our partners as we work together to build awareness and scholarship about American Illustration and the role it plays in our society, culture, and history. More >
THE ART OF NORMAN ROCKWELL
Featuring the original artwork of Norman Rockwell
Norman Rockwell Museum houses the most significant public collection of Norman Rockwell’s work in the world. The Museum’s holdings include original artwork, and the artist’s studio and its related collection, including personal memorabilia, supplies, and reference materials.
The Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust
The Norman Rockwell Art Collection Trust forms the heart of the Museum’s collections. In 1973, Rockwell bequeathed his personal collection in trust to the Museum so that the works could be exhibited, preserved, and used for the “advancement of art appreciation and art education.” This 367-work collection includes such large-scale oil paintings as Stockbridge Main Street at Christmas, Triple Self-Portrait, The Four Freedoms, Girl at Mirror, and The Marriage License, and preliminary sketches and studies in pencil, charcoal, watercolor, and oil.
In 1976, Rockwell added his studio and its contents to the Trust collection. From this later bequest, the Studio Collection and the Norman Rockwell Archives were formed.
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Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), Art Critic (detail), 1955. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 16, 1955. From the collection of Norman Rockwell Museum. © 1955 SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN. All rights reserved.
ILLUSTRATION COLLECTIONS
Norman Rockwell Museum’s growing permanent collection of original illustration is both historical and contemporary, featuring more than 14,000 works by more than 250 artists. Significant collections, featured here, highlight the art of Norman Rockwell’s teachers and artistic inspirations, twentieth century magazine and periodical illustration, and work by contemporary creators.
Many important works have come to us through the generosity of caring donors who have designated the Museum as a home for their treasured collections. We are grateful to our many donors for their ongoing support of the Museum’s collecting mission, which places Norman Rockwell within the context of his vibrant and ever-changing profession, the field of illustration.
ILLUSTRATION HISTORY
FRANK SCHOONOVER CATALOGUE RAISONNE
ARCHIVES
IMAGE RESOURCES
Finding Aids
- Afloat and Ashore periodical collection
- Al Parker Collection
- American Artist periodical collection
- American Boy periodical collection
- American Magazine Periodical Collection
- Betsy Holtzinger collection
- Bill Cohn collection
- Boy’s Life Periodical collection
- Thomas Buechner collection
- Business papers,Norman Rockwell
- Cameron O. Smith Collection
- Country Gentleman periodical collection
- Henry H. Williams collection
- Illustrative Ephemera collection, Norman Rockwell
- Institutional Archives collection, Norman Rockwell Museum
- Ladies’ Home Journal periodical collection
- Louis J. Lamone Slide Collection
- J.C. Leyendecker collection
- Life Magazine periodical collection
- Linwood House Collection
- Literary Digest periodical collection
- Look Magazine periodical collection
- Louis J. Lamone Slide Collection
- Lovell, Tom collection
- McCall’s Periodical collection
- Molly Rockwell Slide collection
- Norman Rockwell Museum Audio recording collection
- Norman Rockwell Museum Costume and Clothing collection
- Norman Rockwell Museum Moving Image Collection
- Norman Rockwell Collected Correspondence: fan, personal, business, Molly Rockwell, 1919-2009
- Norman Rockwell Collected Business Correspondence Collection, 1935-1983
- Norman Rockwell Collected Correspondence: fan, personal, business, Molly Rockwell, 1919-2009
- Norman Rockwell Ephemera
- Norman Rockwell Fan Correspondence, 1923-1978
- Norman Rockwell Writings Collection
- Norman Rockwell Donated Scrapbook Collection
- Periodical illustrations: Non-Rockwell collection
- Photographic print collection, Norman Rockwell
- Ramparts; Recreation; Rotarian Periodical collection
- Record Albums: 1st and 2nd uses, Norman Rockwell
- Red Cross Periodical collection
- Robert Horvath collection
- Bill Scovill collection
- Saturday Evening Post periodical collection
- Separated Correspondence, 1918-1978, Norman Rockwell
- St. Nicholas periodical collection
- Traveling Exhibitions: SEP Magazines and Tearsheets
- Youth’s Companion periodical collection